Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team

Posted on Jul 5, 2022

Top 7 Featured DEV Posts from the Past Week

#top7

Every Tuesday we round up the previous week's top posts based on traffic, engagement, and a hint of editorial curation. The typical week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday, but don't worry, we take into account posts that are published later in the week.

Reflecting and learning

@princewhyte2 looked back on everything they've learned so far as a programmer and summarized what they wish thy knew when they were starting out. Super helpful!

What every newbie developer should know

Princewhyte Dabotubo ・ Jun 29 '22

#webdev #programming #tutorial #career

Let's talk about <!DOCTYPE html>!

@aman894 helps us understand the importance of the <!DOCTYPE html> statement. Congrats to them on their first post on DEV!

What the hell is <!DOCTYPE html>?

Amandeep Singh Malhotra ・ Jun 29 '22

#html #webdev #beginners #discuss

Visualizing pattens

Congrats to @eevajonnapanula for this awesome #showdev post — and more importantly, for their new sweater design site!

How I Created Neule.art

Eevis ・ Jul 1 '22

#html #webdev #showdev #javascript

"Git commit messages are how we communicate to our future selves."

@simeg explains why git commit messages are important and how you can improve yours.

Write Git Commit Messages That Your Colleagues Will Love

Simon Egersand 🎈 ・ Jul 1 '22

#webdev #javascript #git #beginners

Accessibility: the what, why and how

Thank you to @yuridevat for explaining what accessibility is, why it's important and how we can achieve accessible design.

Accessibility: The What, Why & How

Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE ・ Jul 1 '22

#a11y #webdev #inclusion #html

Docker Primer

@roselinebassey explains the basics that can help you get started with Docker. We all could benefit from this sound advice at one point or another!

Introducing Docker Concepts, Containers, and more

Roseline Bassey ・ Jul 2 '22

#devops #docker #microservices #cloudnative

Fun with design

@riapacheco shows us how to create a line chart "in a style that's all the rage in cryptocurrency dashboard design and optimized for user interaction."

Make Pretty / User-Friendly Charts with Angular 14 & ng2-charts v3.1.0

Ria Pacheco ・ Jul 1 '22

#angular #webdev #design #javascript

That's it for our weekly Top 7 for this Tuesday! Keep an eye on dev.to this week for daily content and discussions...and be sure to keep an eye on this series in the future. You might just be in it!

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Top comments (10)

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Jul 5 '22

Big congrats to @princewhyte2, @aman894, @eevajonnapanula, @simeg, @yuridevat, @roselinebassey, & @riapacheco!

Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE • Jul 5 '22

Thank you so much, Gracie. This makes me really happy 🥰

Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE • Jul 14 '22

Since I am a badge addict, I was hoping to get the a11y badge for being one of the 7th authors of the week with hashtag a11y 😇
Did I misunderstand the badge requirements?